xterm just flashes briefly then disappears

[Jaime Lasein <jlasein at yahoo dot com>]

I just downloaded and installed Cygwin/XFree86 on a
Win2000 Pro workstation today. I installed it in
C:\cygwin.

When I try to start XFree86 using
/usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh from the Cygwin bash shell
window, the X server appears to come up -- there is an
"X" in the tray which says it is "Cygwin/XFree86
Server - 0:0". However, the xterm that is started by
startxwin.sh just flashes briefly on the screen and
then disappears.

If I then try to start an xterm (after setting the
environment variable DISPLAY to 127.0.0.1:0.0), it
exhibits the same behavior.

There appears to be some error message in the xterm,
but it disappears too quickly for me to read enough of
it to know what it says.

Here is the XWin.log:

$ cat XWin.log
ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1280 h 1024
winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
OsVendorInit - Creating bogus screen 0
(EE) Unable to locate/open config file
InitOutput - Error reading config file
winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - Allowing PrimaryDD
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported
engines 0000001f
InitOutput - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
winSetEngine - Multi Window => ShadowGDI
winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display
depth of 32 bits per pixel
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - User w: 1280 h: 1024
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Current w: 1280 h:
1024
winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 996 1280
winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 0 996 1280
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 1280
h 996 r 1280 l 0 b 996 t 0
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed -  Returning
winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1280
height: 996 depth: 32
winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Dibsection width: 1280
height: 996 depth: 32 size image: 5099520
winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Created shadow stride: 1280
winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00
000000ff
winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00
000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32
winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to
fbCreateDefColormap ()
null screen fn ReparentWindow
null screen fn RestackWindow
winFinishScreenInitFB - Calling winInitWM.
InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init
InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned
InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init
InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned
winInitWM - Returning.
winFinishScreenInitFB - returning
winScreenInit - returning
InitOutput - Returning.
(EE) No primary keyboard configured
(==) Using compiletime defaults for keyboard
Rules = "xfree86" Model = "pc101" Layout = "us"
Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null)"
winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello
winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 640 498
winBlockHandler - Releasing pmServerStarted
winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_lock () returned.
DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP
winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling setlocale ()
winBlockHandler - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned
winInitMultiWindowWM - setlocale () returned
winInitMultiWindowWM - XInitThreads () returned.
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_lock ()
returned.
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_unlock ()
returned.
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_unlock ()
returned.
winInitMultiWindowWM - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and
successfully opened the display.
winInitMultiWindowWM - XOpenDisplay () returned and
successfully opened the display.
winMultiWindowWMErrorHandler - ERROR: BadWindow
(invalid Window parameter)
winMultiWindowWMErrorHandler - ERROR: BadWindow
(invalid Window parameter)
winMultiWindowWMErrorHandler - ERROR: BadWindow
(invalid Window parameter)
winMultiWindowGetWMHints - pWin or hints was NULL
winMultiWindowWMErrorHandler - ERROR: BadWindow
(invalid Window parameter)
winMultiWindowWMErrorHandler - ERROR: BadWindow
(invalid Window parameter)
winMultiWindowWMErrorHandler - ERROR: BadWindow
(invalid Window parameter)
winMultiWindowGetWMHints - pWin or hints was NULL


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